Coffee or tea pot



V1. HEINRICHS. 'COFFEE 0R TEA PoT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 21, 1919.

Patented Oct. 26, 192.0.

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OFFICE.

' COFFEE 0R TEA POT.

Application inea March 21, 1919. serial No. 284,001.`

or tea leaves and without danger of parti-p. cles of the coffee grounds or tea leaves passing through the filtrate into the pot. An-

' other object is to permit the use of a cheap tain the filtering` medium, suchas filtering paper or the like, which can be readily thrown away after being used once. Another object isV to kpermit of readily assembling the parts for cleaning and other purposes toV mainparts at all times in sanitary condition.

invention consists of certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described and theirspecifically pointed out in the claim.

A. practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying draw y ings forming a pait of thisvspecification, in

which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts iii all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevationof the coffee' or tea pot with parts shown in section;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same with the cover removed; and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional side elevation of the cups with a filtering niediuin between them.

The body 10 of the coffee or vtea pot isprovided with a suitable handle 11 and a spout 12, and the upper open end of the pot 10 is adapted to be closed by asuitable cover 13. The body 10 is provided at its upper end with an inwardly extending annular flange anV outwardly Y extending annular flange 16 formed on v the upper end of a cup 17, the lower portion 18 15 on which is adapted to rest of which is perforated. Within this cup 17 extends a second cup 20 having its lower portion 21-perforated and having its upper end provided with any outwardly extending annular fiange 22 for supportingjthe cup 20 from the fiange 16 of the outer cup 17. The cup 2O is somewhat less in diameter than the cup 17 to provide suflicient space between vthe Specification of Letters Patent.

VViththese and other objects in view, the portions 18 of theouter cup 17.

`at its upper end, the fiaii Patented two cups for a filtering medium 25,- preferably in the form of filtering paper, cheesecloth or the like, and whichv may be extended Fig. 3. The coffee grounds or tea leaves aie placed in the inner cup 2O and then this cup is 'lled with hot water which percolates through the coffeegrounds or tea leaves and through the perforatioiis of thelower portion 21 of the cup to then filter through thefiltering inedium25 and to then pass perforations of the lower portion 18 of the outer cup 17. The iltrateleaving theouter cup 17 passes into the pot 10 in a perfectly clear 'condition owing to the action of the posed between the said cups.v y y By providing the cups 17 and 20nwith perl forated lowerportions only a -quick filtra-v` tion is prevented as the water filling the inthe perforatioiis in the lower portion 21, and a like yaction is had in the perforated lower In practice it takes about two and a half minutes for the water to percolate through the ordi nary ground coffee, but for powdered coffee a longertime is required.

It will be noticed that by the arrangement through the' `perforated `portions 21 and 18of the cups i' 20 and 17 andthe filtering medium 25`interf ner cup 20 canonly gradually pass through soy ksa f described the percolate that passes into the. i

-pot 10 is perfectly clear and free of particles from the coee grounds or the teaportion perforated, one extending withintheA other with aspace between the cups and each having an outwardly extending fiange ge of the outer cup being seated onthe said pot fiange and the flangeof the inner cup being seated on the Hange of the' outer cup, and afiltering medium of flexible material interposed between the'said cups and having its upper edge secured between the outwardly extending flanges of the cups. f

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11oy i 60 between the flanges 16 and 22, as indicated in 

